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| - To be blunt, not a good experience. We went here to check out the "urban" locavore restaurant Stoughton offered as a big city restaurant with a small town identity. I won't buy that it's their version of a local foodie place, but if they advertised as an pub food art bar, sure, I'd buy into that concept. The less-is-more aesthetics (menu, decoration, website, etc.), fails as it comes across as lazy decorating. The walls are adorned with outside art (nicer than the place), some garage sale farm/hunter adornments and typical country farm tables and chairs.
We arrived about 8:15 on a Friday and were told there would be about a 15 minute wait. We took 3 steps to the bar and ordered drinks and paid cash. Then we ordered a Snack Plate to tide us over and told the bartender to add it to our bill. The Apple Old Fashioned was too sweet to actually finish, but the snack plate was good and enough for 4 people. The hostess got us within 15 minutes and we grabbed our snack plate and drinks to the table.
The hostess said our server would be right with us... and we sat for about 20 minutes before we asked a server to track down our server, whoever that would be. During this time, we finished the snack plate, read our menus, kept looking at the servers passing us, stared at the server serving the table next to us and even talking about how we haven't seen a server while the person was serving the table 18 inches from us! It seems that table had a food delay and drink mistake. After flagging someone down, all the servers seemed to disappear and it took 5 minutes, no joke, before an apologetic server greeted us. EVERY WORKER that passed our table, which was in the main aisle to the kitchen, screwed up by not asking us if we were taken care of.
Once we ordered (almost 9pm), the timing of the food was a bit longer than average: appetizer came within 15 minutes (really? The place was clearing out not getting busier.). The entrees came about 20 minutes after that. I had the Pickled & Fried appetizer and it was tangy and fried well, but still too oily. The Sea Bream Piccata was very salty and not reminiscent of piccata. Luckily the fish was on top and decent, and not subject to the salty, stiff rice pilaf on the bottom. The "roasted red peppers" tasted similar to the pickled ones I had fried, or possibly they were preserved/canned. The Chicken & "Dumplings" was more like a Salty Poultry Seasoning Stew with shredded chicken in a thick, goopy sauce with gnocchi as the "dumplings." The parmesan gnocchi added to the saltiness.
Our server was good once we had one. She checked in on us and her timing was good and was not overly-apologetic, which could be annoying in itself. She certainly was at the mercy of the kitchen for our food timing. Our bill was missing the snack plate and when we pointed this out she didn't offer a discount for the wait or made an exception, she thanked us and added it. That was fine and why we pointed it out, we don't steal based on a mistake, it's someone's income missing when it's not accounted for. However, in this case a discount would have been appropriate - the table next to us got free drinks for a mistake. Our bill was closed right before 10pm, we were there an hour and 45 minutes. The art in the place garnered the 1 star.
The food was memorable in terms of how over flavored and salty everything was. This is the place to go if you have burned out your taste buds with a highly salted, highly seasoned diet rich in frying oil. I couldn't tell if the food products are so bad they need to be over seasoned, or if the chefs lack ability to balance the actual food to seasoning by drowning the food in salt and seasonings? Service was bad, maybe due to a bad night, miscommunication, etc., but who cares when your one chance to make an impression is every customer you have. Overall, we won't be back.
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